From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HxVfA-0000uD-UO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:13:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5AMCDOY018276; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:12:13 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.244]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5AM7wAH013547 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:07:58 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c8so371775ana for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MKQ+4dqvtgKuMJrKgHik5cBpA2oTnlYhhLQofdzHtimliMhJa1CiGW7Zxt91ahoG9+ZRzxtBjFJHjDOdtFB8Dan2hBQDSoegLnmnJx2Fkop3ebycpxuG8bQKgMd8s1pQJUcKooMkOf1Gsqh3LI8HKX2nbZTqLTrxcYmPM+P3NeM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Z1wsFVFhiKZ1WnbnDb6FxZMqIGNnY8VcQ8KvSGob4DLlcRAD4r8CAQZYLjN5R4Yg45MP02p2ks+RCPtMl4cuvdIYiNg0+oXna3SZtEMj9mXTMy02UZ1l9FI5iXR3eGfCGJsEO5AK8xLqlY1tWKcfgwPRErxe4JFT0eDyYQibLEY= Received: by 10.100.178.7 with SMTP id a7mr2976764anf.1181513277823; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.37.16 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9acccfe50706101507h11e88f9due9a0f763d66de63@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:07:57 -0700 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? In-Reply-To: <200706101629.16558.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> <84D6E778-4BDA-40F7-8840-DFAB9500D569@fixe-post.de> <466C59AB.5050503@karlhaines.com> <200706101629.16558.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: d08e1c78-45cc-47ea-bf31-292527a23adb X-Archives-Hash: 95aee451569b384c7a07a4558696f901 On 6/10/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2007, Karl Haines wrote about 'Re: > FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love > with colorized output?!?': > > Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however > > that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily. > > It should also be turned off by default for anything that's not a terminal. > or a terminal whose termcap/terminfo/etc. doesn't support the ANSI color > feature. One of the most annoying things I've ever seen is ANSI escape > codes in emails and/or log files. Gentoo is fairly good about that now, > but I'm still having problem with RoR misbehaving in this way. > I also dislike the colorization, but for a more specific reason. Gentoo seems to assume one is using white on black rather than the default black on white in terminal windows. This makes yellow lettering entirely unreadable to me. If I could just change all occurrences of yellow to orange (otherwise not much used) I'd probably not mind so much, but the entire scheme seems to be hard-coded. And I don't like white-on-black even though it's labelled "Linux console" in Konsole. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list